GitHub Agent HQ supports third-party agents like Claude Code and Cognition
Jared Palmer · ⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents · Nov 10, 2025 · at 13:13
Jared Palmer, SVP at GitHub, explains GitHub's multi-model and multi-agent partner ecosystem strategy within Agent HQ.
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“Switching gears to GitHub. Like we are all about model choice now and like making sure that and what's cool is that like, it's, we also have copilot, which is our harness. And co-pilot CLI, but we also have third party partners like Cloud Code and Codex and Cognition now, like in Agent HQ. So you kind of get the best of both worlds.”
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